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King, Mary

Senior Scientific Specialist, Archaeobotany
209 Nuclear Phys Lab
M/C 571
Champaign, IL  61820

Education

B.S. Anthropology, Loyola University, Chicago

Academic Interests

Paleoethnobotany, foodways, plant domestication, prehistoric agriculture, textiles, database generation and maintenance, archaebotanical curation

Selected Publications

Kimberly L. Schaefer, Mary L. Simon, and Mary M. King (2025). The Archaeobotany of the East St. Louis Precinct of Greater Cahokia. In Ancient Indigenous Cuisines: Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent, edited by Susan M. Kooiman, Jodie O’Gorman, and Autumn Painter, pp. 196-225. 

Mary M. King and Mary L. Simon (2021). Botanical Remains from the Joe Louis Site. Illinois Archaeology (33):150-179. 

Professional Affiliations

Midwest Archaeological Conference, Inc.

Illinois Archaeological Survey

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Inc.

 

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